Beauty Memory Unity: A Theory of Proportion in Architecture

Ancient architects and artists had a way of striking resonant chords in those who viewed of their work. However, this skill seems to have disappeared. Beauty Memory Unity points toward a possibility of regaining a new sense of unity in the visual arts through a combination of theoretical ideas and practical methods, of narrative description and visual exercises.

Proportion--the use of number and geometry as the tools of design--is seen in the context of the search for the Beautiful, a state ...